Tolerance

The limits of acceptance and the courage to take sides

Tolerance becomes a crime when applied to evil.

Always take sides: neutrality helps the oppressor, never the victim. Silence encourages the tormentor never the tormented.

The highest result of education is tolerance.

Tolerance is the virtue of the man without convictions.

Your tolerance for others is the measure of your own enlightenment.

We must be tolerant of difference but intolerant of injustice.

Tolerance isn't about not having beliefs. It's about how your beliefs lead you to treat people who disagree with you.

The test of courage comes when we are in the minority. The test of tolerance comes when we are in the majority.

There's a difference between tolerating diverse opinions and tolerating harmful actions.

Tolerance is giving to every other human being every right that you claim for yourself.

The paradox of tolerance: unlimited tolerance must lead to the disappearance of tolerance.

We should be tolerant of people but intolerant of ideas that seek to destroy tolerance itself.

Tolerance is the positive and cordial effort to understand another's beliefs, practices, and habits without necessarily sharing or accepting them.

True tolerance requires the strength to confront evil while having the wisdom to understand human complexity.

The most intolerant people are often those who demand the most tolerance for themselves.

Tolerance is not about agreeing with everyone, but about respecting their right to exist while disagreeing.

When tolerance becomes indifference, it ceases to be a virtue.

The measure of a society's civilization is how it treats those it finds difficult to tolerate.

Tolerance without boundaries is self-destruction.

We tolerate what we cannot change, but we must never tolerate what we can change.